Electrickery. In Our Time. BBC Radio 4 (4 November 2004). Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity. How did electricity develop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries? Why was it so politically contentious and how was it understood during the age in which it changed the world forever? With Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Darwin College; Patricia Fara, historian of science and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge; Iwan Morus, Lecturer in the History of Science at Queen's University Belfast.

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Crackling Planets. Tony Phillips. Science@NASA (10 August 2005). Astronauts on the Moon and Mars are going to have to cope with an uncommon amount of static electricity.

Zap, Crackle and Pop: The Story of Electricity. The Royal Institution (2015). Dr Marty Jopson leads us through the story of electricity in a show buzzing with demonstrations. Have we tamed electricity? From the Ancient Greeks to Faraday's genius, this show puts the awesome back into electricity.

The science of static electricity. Anuradha Bhagwat. TED-Ed. YouTube (2015). We've all had the experience: you're walking across a soft carpet, you reach for the doorknob and… ZAP. But what causes this trademark jolt of static electricity? Anuradha Bhagwat sheds light on the phenomenon by examining the nature of matter.